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From: delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: YMODEM on the Mac
Message-ID: <951@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 88 13:29:05 GMT
References: <1273@hubcap.UUCP> <10224@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> <3487@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Lines: 21
Keywords: YMODEM, XMODEM Batch
Summary: macget/macput != XMODEM

In article <3487@bnrmtv.UUCP>, takahash@bnrmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi) writes:
> In article <10224@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>, hallett@macbeth.steinmetz (Jeff A. Hallett) writes:
> > Jeffrey A. Hallett                     | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa   
> 
> Yes, but why is it that Red Ryder v10.3 can't talk to macput/macget?
> Whenever I try it, all sides time out (RR for receiving files, and
> macget for sending files) while using XMODEM format.
> 
> Note that there isn't any problem using Microphone...it sends/receives
> files fine.  (Microphone uses something it calls "MacTerminal 1.1"
> format...I assume its really talking about XMODEM...).

Your assumption (and many other peoples' identical assumptions) are WRONG.
Macput/macget uses a mutated version of the XMODEM format, not the 
official version, that mutated form having been introduce in MacTerminal.
to further confuse things, VersaTerm calls this mutated form `Mac XMODEM`.
RR 10.3 implements only the official XMODEM.

I have suggested to FreeSoft that they breakdown and support the mutated
form as an alternative, just as they also support Kermit. We will see
what happens in future releases.